CVE-2019-16332

EPSS 5.7%

Vexday Risk Score

18Low

SSVC decision (CISA)

Attend

PoC available → attend closely

Exploit maturity

Functional exploit

Automatable exploit available (Nuclei/Metasploit).

CVSS —EPSS 5.7%KEV nãoPoC —Nuclei simMetasploit —Patch —

Lifecycle

15 Sep 2019Published on NVD

Recommendation: Plan a near-term fix — a public PoC already exists.

In the api-bearer-auth plugin before 20190907 for WordPress, the server parameter is not correctly filtered in the swagger-config.yaml.php file, and it is possible to inject JavaScript code, aka XSS.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

References

https://packetstormsecurity.com/files/154369/WordPress-API-Bearer-Auth-20181229-Cross-Site-Scripting.html https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2152730 https://wordpress.org/plugins/api-bearer-auth/#developers https://wpvulndb.com/vulnerabilities/9868